{"id":3595,"date":"2022-01-25T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:18:41","slug":"647-the-magic-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/647-the-magic-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"647 &#8211; The Magic Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195706-thors-hammer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195706-thors-hammer.png\" alt=\"A panel from Tales of the Unexpected #16, June 1957\" class=\"wp-image-3596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195706-thors-hammer.png 524w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195706-thors-hammer-300x274.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Tales of the Unexpected #16, June 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A nice little archaeological find in DC&#8217;s Tales of the Unexpected #16 (June 1957):  Jack Kirby brings us a short story called &#8220;The Magic Hammer&#8221;. In it, a nasty prospector discovers Thor&#8217;s hammer, Mjolnir, and uses it to summon rain and build himself a crooked fortune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195706-mjolnir-vs-tree.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195706-mjolnir-vs-tree.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195706-mjolnir-vs-tree.png 290w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195706-mjolnir-vs-tree-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Another panel from Tales of the Unexpected #16, June 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually Thor comes to claim the hammer, telling the story of how Loki stole it and lost it. While the character designs are very different from Marvel&#8217;s Thor and Loki, the hammer design is basically identical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice little archaeological find in DC&#8217;s Tales of the Unexpected #16 (June 1957): Jack Kirby brings us a short story called &#8220;The Magic Hammer&#8221;. In it, a nasty prospector discovers Thor&#8217;s hammer, Mjolnir, and uses it to summon rain and build himself a crooked fortune. Eventually Thor comes to claim the hammer, telling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[593,14,161,90,276,274],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-593","tag-dc","tag-jack-kirby","tag-marvel","tag-mjolnir","tag-thor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}